“Conviction” tells the story of Carter Morrison, the brilliant but rebel daughter of a former President, who is blackmailed into taking a job as the head of Los Angeles’ newly created Conviction Integrity Unit. She, along with her team of lawyers, investigators and forensic experts, work together to examine cases where there’s credible suspicion that the wrong person may have been convicted of a crime.

Friedman, Friedlander, Gordon and Nicholas Pepper will all serve as exec producers.

While “Conviction” is in contention for a 2016-17 series order, the Mark Gordon Co. already has a series on ABC’s slate for the next TV season with political conspiracy thriller “Designated Survivor,” the Kiefer Sutherland-starrer that landed a straight-to-series order with 13 episodes. The company, which partnered with Entertainment One in 2015 to create in independent TV and film studio, also has another series in development at ABC — a terrorism crime drama loosely inspired by New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly — though it has not been picked up to pilot at this point.